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Your Mother’s Germs May Have Influenced Your Brain’s Development : ScienceAlert

Your Mother’s Germs May Have Influenced Your Brain’s Development : ScienceAlert

Our bodies are colonized by a teeming, ever-changing mass of microbes that help power countless biological processes. Now, a new study has identified how these microorganisms get to work shaping the brain before birth. Researchers at Georgia State University studied newborn mice specifically bred in a germ-free environment to prevent any microbe colonization. Some of these mice were immediately placed …

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Harvard researchers find link between mother’s age, child’s sex

Harvard researchers find link between mother’s age, child’s sex

In a study published July 18 in the journal Science Advances, Wang and her co-authors came up with a partial answer. They analyzed a dataset of 58,007 women and their children and concluded that, in some cases, a child’s sex correlates with the mother’s age. Women who had their first child at age 29 or older were more likely to …

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